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arXiv cs.CLPaper14d ago

NE-R1: Enhancing Named Entity Recognition Model via Reinforcement Learning

This is a competent incremental approach to a known problem: NER models struggle on domain-specific and rare entities. The retrieval-on-demand mechanism is sensible and gains a couple of points on benchmarks. But NER itself is increasingly a solved problem for most builders who just call an LLM. This matters more if you're operating under strict latency or cost constraints.

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arXiv cs.CLPaper14d ago

Improving Health Literacy through Lay Summarization of Radiological Reports: An Evaluation of BioNER and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

This is a solid applied NLP paper addressing a real problem: patients need to understand their medical records, and hallucination in ungrounded LLM summaries is dangerous. The combo of NER plus RAG is straightforward but works. If you're building healthcare NLP tools, this framework is worth adopting. Otherwise, it's domain-specific.

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